Number Theory = Thereby Mourn
An innocent-looking number theory conjecture, decades later, has claimed the mathematician's sanity. (An anagram.)
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[Title] "NUMBER THEORY = THEREBY MOURN"
"Ooh, that's a fun little conjecture! I wonder why no one has proved it…" [decades later] [Tombstone: "R.I.P. SANITY"]
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